3. Lincoln named Grant supreme commander
of all Union forces.
President
Lincoln
General
Grant
4. • Grant commanded the Army of the Potomac.
• Sherman commanded the western army and
marched on Atlanta.
General
Grant
General
Sherman
5. • The Atlanta campaign pushed ahead
Farragut’s plans for a naval assault on
Mobile.
• Sherman figured that an attack on
Mobile would move Atlanta troops.
Admiral Farragut General Sherman
6. Farragut was given
additional monitors
and an amphibious
troop contingent to
besiege and capture
the forts guarding
the entrance to
Mobile Bay.
Admiral Farragut
7. The act or process of surrounding
and attacking a fortified place in
such a way as to isolate it from help
and supplies, for the purpose of
lessening the resistance of the
defenders and thereby making
capture possible
Besiege
8. • Strategic port
for the South
• Largest cotton-
shipping port
• Stronger
defenses than
other ports
14. USS Hartford
• Farragut surveyed the scene from the rigging,
and taking a calculated risk, shouted the
famous words, “Damn the torpedoes!”
• And, “Four bells, Captain Drayton, go ahead!
Jouett, full speed!”
15. A chance of failure, the probability
of which is estimated before some
action is undertaken
Calculated Risk
17. Buchanan was desperate to keep the
Union ships bottled up in front of Fort
Morgan, so the fort’s guns could be
brought to bear.
CSS
Tennessee
USS
Hartford
18. CSS Selma
• Selma was captured.
• Gaines was sunk.
• Morgan escaped to the city.
•Tennessee retired under the
guns of Fort Morgan.
20. The Tennessee’s gun ports jammed.
Her gun deck was filled with suffocating
heat and smoke.
With Admiral Buchanan wounded, he
authorized the captain of the Tennessee
to surrender.
CSS Tennessee
21. • The loss of Mobile Bay was the
end of the Confederate Navy.
23. • Atlanta fell to Sherman’s forces in
three sharp battles.
• His 60,000 shock troops made a
path
of destruction 60 miles wide to
Savannah. This became known as
25. Following the fall
of Savannah, his
army surged
northward into
the Carolinas.
Charleston fell on
18 February 1865.
Finally, Lee was
trapped in the
Petersburg-
Richmond area.General William
Tecumseh Sherman
26. Wilmington, NC, was the only
port still open to Confederate
blockade runners.
Wilmington
Cape
Fear
NC
27. Fort Fisher
was the key to
Confederate
defenses at
Cape Fear.
Fort Fisher, NC
28. • Terry led the Army landing force.
• Porter led the naval forces.
Admiral
Porter
Fort
Fisher
General
Terry
30. A defensive wall or elevation, as of
earth or stone, in a fortification
Parapet
31. Amphibious Attack on Fort Fisher
The Fort Fisher expedition was the
only large-scale joint amphibious
attack against a strongly fortified
position during the war.
32. Union Navy at Fort Fisher
• The battle at Fort Fisher was the
Navy’s last significant action in
the Civil War.
• The Union Navy had
accomplished
33. The President realized that after the
victory at Fort Fisher, the Navy had
nothing left for their ships to do.
President
Lincoln
Navy Secretary
Welles
50. • The Navy grew to over 600 ships.
• Ironclads and monitors were developed.
• Nearly 60,000 officers and men were
serving.
51. • Lee was the superior tactician in
the
field.
• Lincoln and Grant’s resources and
52. The Confederacy’s
attempts to sustain
itself by interior lines
of communication
failed in the face of
the superior naval
power around it.
General
Robert E. Lee
53. A means of sending private or
hidden
messages, orders, etc., within an
organization
For example, a Civil War general or
admiral sending orders to battlefield
commanders or ship’s captains
Interior Lines of Communication
54. • Movement by sea was faster than by
land.
• Geopolitical and
strategic lessons
about land versus
sea power have
been studied since
the Civil War.
